Saturday's letters: Outrageous!

Saturday

Mar 29, 2014 at 12:01 AM

Outrageous!

To the editor: It is unbelievable that a 9-year-old was prevented from carrying his “My Little Pony” backpack to school because the school administrators at Candler Elementary said it “triggered” bullying. This is outrageous!

To the editor: It is unbelievable that a 9-year-old was prevented from carrying his “My Little Pony” backpack to school because the school administrators at Candler Elementary said it “triggered” bullying. This is outrageous!Did the administrators deal with the bullies? What punishment did they receive? Were the bullies’ parents brought in to help deal with the bullying? All these questions, and yet it appears the only person to be dealt with was the child and his innocent backpack.Have the school administrators lost all common sense? Are they worn out and need to retire? Whatever the answers, I personally am furious that anything at all was said about the “My Little Pony” backpack to the child who carried it to school. Good grief!Phyllis HastyLaurel Park

To the editor: I am currently collecting cards of appreciation to be sent to the last surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, otherwise known as WASP. These remarkable women were true trailblazers, flying as they did an estimated 60 million miles in their vital role of support for service pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

Though their role was largely overlooked for decades, they began to receive some of the recognition they deserve when in 2009 they were awarded the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal.There are only about 160 WASP left today, and we lose more with each passing year. These great women gave so much on behalf of our nation, and in proving their worth and mettle helped shatter gender barriers for the generation of women who followed them.Now it’s our turn to say thank you. Celebrate and remember a WASP veteran by sending her a card of appreciation today. For details, contact Joe Elliott at jpelliott16@aol.com.Joe ElliottVETCARD CAMPAIGNArden

To the editor: The Times-News of Feb. 8 contained Associated Press writer Jeffrey Collins’ story, “New state lines create conflicts.” Yes, I know, they have to put state lines “somewhere.” Wasn’t there an old song, “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere?”

Is this about a conflict between science/engineering and politics? What about continental drift changing things? A politically annoying activity of science is measuring stuff — I mean really measuring stuff.I’ve heard that back in history, ancient Egyptian rulers devised a stone “standard cubit” kept in the royal palace against which official wooden copies distributed around to favored bureaucrats were annually checked. This was to give builders a decent idea of what was meant by a “cubit” (originally from a man’s elbow to his fingertips. So easy. Why louse that up?.But when some bureaucrat’s kitchen staff used the wooden copy cubit in cooking dinner as company came over, and the bureaucrat tried to present his own homemade copy with a poorly counterfeited cartouche, maybe it cost him his head? Messy. Keep politics out of science/engineering!N.O. KlanerHendersonville

To the editor: I wonder who the “genius” is who planned out the parking lot for the new Fresh Market/Stein Mart Shopping Center. There is no flow pattern for traffic entering or exiting from the main road. Seems to me, it’s an accident waiting to happen.Irene Bergell